for the next seven months, to take us to the end of this nfiscal year, it's no way o run a government, week to week, month to month. cooler heads have revealed on the republican side they're not pushing for this $61 billion immediate deep cut which would hurt the economy and throw people out of work at a very fragile moment, but the fact is unless we come together for a longer term plan, we're going to be right back where we are today, two weeks from now, or a month from now. so let's figure out a responsible, not a reckless plan forward. >> well, what about these negotiations, i mean where are you coming together, what are the big dividing lines right now? >> well, in the house today, we're debating a $4 billion cut over a two-week period, the democrats actually proposed an alternative that would cut the same amount, in fact a little bit more, but not cut from the education funds because we believe it short sighted a cut in the area of education. unfortunately, despite all the talk about openness and transparency, we're not even going to be allowed a vote on that alternative approach, agai
